Biography Tom Friedman

Friedman, who rarely titles his work, employs a labor-intensive technique related to process art, and creates humorous and elemental works out of materials that typically don't get human attention. For instance, a glob of bubble gum is stuck to the floor and stretched to the ceiling. In one piece, thousands of words written on paper become an abstract design, and in another, a piece of styrofoam is reduced to dust and then sculpted into an improbably thin, gravity-defying tower.